Locking whip-socket.



No. 663.756. Patented Dec. II, 900.

A. W. HERRING. LOCKING WHI P SOCKET.

(Application filed Apr. 3. 1900.

(No Model.)

' Jaw/270602 M div/a5? #4759775) UNITED STATES PATENT Unrrcn.

ARCHIE W. HERRING, OF LIMA, OHIO.

LOCKING WHIP-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,756, dated December 11, 1900.

Application filed April 3 1900- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARCHIE W. HERRING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lima, in the county of Allen and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Looking Whip-Sockets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to locking whip-sock ets, my object being to provide a device of this character in which a whip may be so fastened as to prevent its removal by any unauthorized person without regard to the size or particular formation of the whip-handle. It is my purpose, in other words, to provide a whip-socket with a spring-pressed clamp normally Withdrawn from looking engagement, but having an outer push-button by which it can be made to partly embrace the handle of a whip with such a degree of pressure as to render its withdrawal impossible, said clamp being provided with a locking-bar having antomatic engagement with a suitable lock, whereby the whip may be released at any moment by means of a suitable key.

My invention also includes other novel and useful features, all of which will be fully described in the following specification and then particularly pointed out and defined in the claims.

For the purposes of the following description reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a whipsocket having my invention, the View being taken from the side which shows the exterior push-button or slide for closing the normally open clamping-arm. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section, the plane passing through the clamping-bar and showing its locking-arm and the means for preserving its clamping engagement. Fig. 3is adetail view, upon a slightlyenlargecl scale, of the clamping-bar and its locking-arm removed, from the whip-socket.

The reference-numeral 1 in said drawings indicates a whip-socket of ordinary construction and provided with any suitable means by which it is secured to a carriage. In the upper portion of the cylindrical chamber 2, which receives the handle or butt of the whip, is a channel or recess 3, transverse to the chamber 2 and opening into the latter through Serial No, 11,320. (No model.)

8 of any suitable form projecting from the inner face of the bar '7.

Upon the bar 7 is coiled aspring 9, of such diameter that one end bears against two opposite shoulders 10 of the flat plate 6. The other end of said spring presses against the casing 12 of a small lock, which is inserted in a recess in the socket opposite the recess 3.

The lock-casing 12 is provided with a small opening 13 to permit the passage of the end of the locking-bar 7 and has a bolt or tumbler 14 of a form adapted to engage the detents 8 upon the end of the locking-bar and prevent the withdrawal of the latter after such an engagement until the bolt or tumbler is operated by asmall key, which is inserted in a suitable aperture-12 in the whip-socket. It will be observed that the teeth or detents 8 are beveled upon their backs, so that if the lock is spring-operated they will readily pass the bolt or tumbler in one direction and be held by the latter against movement in the other direction. The spring 9 being compressed between the lock-casin g and the locking-bar 7 retains the latter normally out of locking engagement and retains the clamping-arm 4: in its retracted position, in which it is practically concealed by the channel 3. In order to effect its proper engagement with the whip handle, an exterior slide or pushbutton 15 is provided, its shank 16 lying in a slot 17 in the whip-socket, the threaded end passing through an opening in the flat plate 6 and screwing into the end of the lockingarm 4 between the slide-pieces 5. The shank of the push-button passes through the fiat plate 6, which is rigidly secured thereby to the clamping-arm 4. An escutcheon or other suitable cover 18 conceals the slot 17 and moves easily with the push-putton.

To give a secure hold, the inner or concave face of the arm 4 is preferably providedwith a yielding or elastic cushion 19 of soft rubber or any other suitable material.

A suitable rein-holder20 is mounted on the socket, and to preserve the high finish of the carriageI have found it an advantage to attach a match-lighter 21,which may 'form part of the escutcheon-plat-e 22, covering the keyopening.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States, is

1. A locking whip-socket having a movable clampingarm carrying a locking bar arranged at a right angle thereto, said arm and bar lying wholly within a recess transverse to said socket, a spring normally acting to hold said arm and locking-bar retracted, a lock located in a recess in the socket directly opposite the arm and having an opening in its casing to receive said bar whereby its bolt may be brought into and out of contact therewith, and a push button having its shank lying in a slot in the whip-socket and its end engaging the clamping-arm whereby the latter may be moved toward the bolt against the action of the spring, substantially as described.

angle with the same, a spring coiled on said locking-bar, a key-lock having a casing provided with an opening for the end of the locking-bar, and an exterior push-button having its shank in a slot in the whip-socket and its end tapped into the end of the clamping-arm, the spring having bearing at one end on the lock-casing to hold the clamping-arm out of engagement, substantially as described.

3. In a locking Whipsocket the combination with a clamping arm movable in a recess which opens into said socket transversely, a locking-bar carried by and arranged at right angles to said arm and provided at its free end with teeth or detents, a lock located in a recess in the socket directly opposite the arm and having an opening in its casing to receive the toothed end of said bar whereby the lock-bolt may be brought into and out of engagement with thesaid teeth or det ents'on the end of the bar, and a laterally-movable button having its shank lying in a horizontal slot in the whip-socket and its end engaging the clamping-arm whereby the latter may be moved laterally toward the bolt, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ARCHIE W. HERRING.

Witnesses:

H. P. WILLIAMSON, J AMES -S. DOWNARD. 

